Happy Saturday afternoon and welcome to today’s promotional awareness. I dare to write such a post because its fundraising week at WDVX and WUOT, so maybe just maybe you’ll have a little more tolerance for such ploys here. May I draw your attention to a couple of things that are in my own interest and possibly [...] Continue Reading »
mostly links to delightful places
0the everyman factor
2If you’re a longtime reader and listener of the Levon Walker songwriting collection, I’m sure you’re wondering by now when the new album will be coming out. That would be album #5 (and perhaps this a good time to familiarize yourself the last four), and it will likely be the biggest hit of the fall [...] Continue Reading »
our hipster tourist guide of knoxville
4Hi, I’m an artist from Vancouver Canada, and I will be visiting Knoxville in May. I was looking up arts and culture in Knoxville when I stumbled upon your bog. I am wondering if you could do a post on a hipster tourist guide for Knoxville, as I am hoping to see indie art and [...] Continue Reading »
last night i went on a suttree
2Last night I went on a suttree. With a handful of peanuts from the Fellini Kroger, I lock the door behind me on Armstrong and cross into the alley that opens behind Clark Brothers Pianos (exterior acrylic on cylinder block). A copper camper van is washed up, half covered in black plastic. That man sells [...] Continue Reading »
don’t wait for someone to tell you you’re a music town
1(by Levon who was listening to Christabel and the Jons in Knoxville’s Market Square on the WDVX Blueplate Special) Upon the arrival of 1000 of each of my CDs, I implemented a rather peculiar marketing strategy: I got on a bus to Mexico. Yes, I smuggled a few across the border, and who could say [...] Continue Reading »
the truth about Knoxville
1Back on the farm near D.C. With some distance now between us and Knoxville, I’ve begun to feel enough bravery to make some bold statements about the town and its residents. We shouldn’t be back for a while, and I hope that the buffer is enough to protect us from the repercussions of unleashed honesty. [...] Continue Reading »
adding some structure and the new plan
3(from Levon) The past two weeks of self/un employment has made me realize I need some structure. No longer do I have a boss, a place to go where I feel at work, and any responsibility to anyone besides us. So freakin awesome. But not reality. If I get up and play the piano for [...] Continue Reading »